The 21-year-old R&B singer will perform before the annual all-star game Sunday in Honolulu, Pro Bowl spokesman Brian McCarthy said.

The NFL had asked Chasez to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" after removing him from the halftime show out of concern that some of his lyrics may be too suggestive.

The league said it was being extra cautious following the Super Bowl halftime show in which Chasez's bandmate, Justin Timberlake, ripped off a piece of Janet Jackson's top and exposed her right breast.

Hip-hop producer Timbaland's label is releasing her debut album, which will feature the single "Make Me a Song."

NEW YORK - Tyra Banks was accustomed to people staring at her long before she became a supermodel.

The 30-year-old said people used to tease her about her forehead, saying it was so big it could be a "five-head."

"I used to try to wear bangs and cover it up," she told reporters in Los Angeles recently, according to AP Radio. "When I walked into a modeling agency, that was the first thing they said was special about me."

Banks hosts and produces the second season of "America's Next Top Model" on UPN, a reality show in which 12 women compete for a deal with IMG Models.

Former model Janice Dickinson, who said she was the first to coin the term "supermodel," is among the judges. She said one unique thing distinguishes a "supermodel" from a "model."

"It could be the attitude, it could be the nose, it was Lauren Hutton's gap. It's just that one thing that differentiates a model in making her a super model," Dickinson said.

The show airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. CST.

NEW YORK - Adam Sandler's beloved English bulldog, Meatball, who served as a ring bearer at the comedian's wedding, has gone on to that big doghouse in the sky.

Meatball died of a heart attack Jan. 27 at age 4, Us Weekly reported in its Feb. 6 issue.

The bulldog wore a yarmulke and a tuxedo to walk down the aisle at Sandler's June 2003 wedding to Jackie Titone. He's also featured in a short film on the "Eight Crazy Nights" DVD, and has his own photo and video on Sandler's Web site.

Meatball's father was Mr. Beefy, the talking pooch who co-starred in Sandler's 2000 comedy "Little Nicky." The 37-year-old comedian also has a bulldog puppy, Matzoball, a wedding gift from Titone.

Sandler's publicist confirmed Thursday that Meatball had died but would provide no further details.

BERLIN - "Cold Mountain" director Anthony Minghella called his Civil War epic a plea against rallying people to war "under a flag and a lie," getting the Berlin Film Festival off to a politically tinged start.

"Cold Mountain," starring Nicole Kidman and Jude Law, opened a 26-film program with competing movies from 18 countries.

Law and Kidman disappointed fans by canceling planned appearances, leaving the festival without some of its star power.